Central Stable Block To Former Hillsborough Barracks

The central stable block to the former Hillsborough Barracks, built between 1848 and 1854, is now a supermarket. Originally used as industrial workshops in the mid-20th century, it underwent conversion and alterations in 1990. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and features hipped slate roofs, showcasing a Castellated Gothic Revival style. It has a rectangular plan that once included a central parade ground.

The exterior includes a plinth, a first-floor band, and a sill band, with half-round moulded eaves. The structure is two storeys high and has a total of 27 windows arranged in a pattern of 10:7:10. Most windows are late 20th-century glazing bar sashes. The projecting central entrance block features a coped parapet and octagonal corner towers, topped by a taller octagonal clock tower, all adorned with crenellated parapets. The entrance block has five windows and a segment-arched carriage opening flanked by two windows. Each corner tower contains a single window above and a door below. The flanking ranges have four windows, a loft door, four more windows, and a loft door at the end. Below, there are six doors alternating with seven small segment-headed glazing bar stable windows. The rear elevation is similarly designed, with a blocked central carriage opening. The right return has a coped parapet and regular fenestration, mostly blank.

The interior was not inspected. Historically, Hillsborough Barracks was constructed in response to concerns over civil unrest, featuring a large stable area that included fodder stores. This building is one of the earliest examples of the historicist, castellated barracks style, influenced by the Tower of London, built in 1845. Despite its conversion, much of the original site remains intact, including the barracks, officers' quarters, hospital, riding school, guard house, and magazine.